2010 · drama · music · romance
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Directed by Damien Chazelle1h 23m2010
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.
Our read: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010) reads as a warm, measured, inventive drama · music · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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